Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-16
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

The City Hall and sta'ion- house have
| been draped in mourning tr Governor
Bartlett.
| There are kilograms n &c Western
| Union Telegraph Office for W H. Whit
more, p. o. Murray, Miss +. B.,labiega aud
| H. n. Wright.
! The State Press Association will leave on
its annual excursion October Sd for Santa
| Barbara, Los Angeles and San Diego. and
return on the 18th.
! The steamer San Joaquin, No. 3. arrived
from the upper Sacramento yesterday with
barge load of grain, and returned light.
| The barge Anna Metha brought down
load of wood.
Judge Van Fleet announced yesterday
| that, out of respect for the memory O; ne
| late Governor Bartlett, the hearing OF the
law calendar of his Court would be contin-
ued until next Monday.
Officers Sullivan and McNiff arrested last
evening a man named Tom JOY, on the
complaint of w. Eberhardt who accused
him of obtaining set of rondo balls from
him under false pretenses
Sheriff Rooney, of Solano county,
brought to the city last evening, en- route
| to the State Prison at Folsom, Henry Will
| son, who is to serve twenty years on two
charges OF burglary of the first degree
twelve years on one charge and eight years
upon the other.
| A young man named Evans. who resides
| ON the Costumes, complained to the police
last evening that some one had picked his
| pocket at the pool-rooms of three tickets
{ on Arrow, in the unfinished pacing race,
calling for S75, and $50 piece The thief
was not found.
The police received dispatch from San
Francisco last evening, asking that a run
! away girl from that city, aged 16 years
named Annie Solomon-who was sup
posed to have come to Sacramento-be
found and arrested, but the officers could
not learn of her whereabouts.
About 1l:30 last night some one put
| torpedo on the street railroad track on
street, between Third and Fourth, and
when car passed over it there was an ex-
| ploslon that attracted to the vicinity in
| very short space of time crowd of two or
| three hundred people. No damage had
been done, and the crowd, which had ex-
pected to see a tragedy, dispersed disap-
| pointed.
| Warden McComb, of the Folsom Prison.
in his desire to practically demonstrate the
adaptability of the soil of that section to
the growth of all kinds of plants and shrubs,
has established on the prison grounds a
small cotton plantation, which is progress
! ing finely. The. balls are plentiful and of
good Size and the Warden expects 10 gather
a satisfactory crop when the cold weather
makes it ready for picking.
Many people are feeling worried because
of the red paint that has been applied to a
portion of the ornamental projections on
the walls of the State Capitol, and, i'm
pressed with the belief that it is intended
| to ornament the building with some
| trir ,ir,uc n,
newspaper men with protests. While it
might be supposed that the color was APP
! piled in honor of the New York "lurid
| streak" visitors, it may be accepted as
fact that the red paint is only printing.
The average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was 790, being 90 warmer than the
normal temperature tor that day. The
! highest was 1000. This makes but three
days that the highest temperature here
reached such point during this season.
The highest temperature in June was 1909;
July, 800; August, 1909, and yesterday,
! September 18th, 1902 The lowest was Coz
with very light and gentle winds, mostly
from the north-that is northerly during
the day and southerly at night and during
the early morning. Weather clear.
a farmer of this county had converse
ton with one of the New York firemen
yesterday, and struck up quite an acquaint-
ance during their talk about old times in
the metropolis. Finally they introduced
themselves by name, ana the New York
man remarked, why, we have a gentle
man in our party of the same name as
yours" The individual referred to was
looked up and proved to be close relative
of the Sacramentan, who had not seen him
for forty years, and had lost all trace of
him.
A man complained to the police yester-
! day that he had been robbed during the
previous night of 500. He came to the city
a day or two ago. and put up at the Me-
| chanics' Exchange. The last he remem-
| bers of Wednesday nights proceedings is
that he was drinking with some parties in
! a saloon at Second and I streets, and was
| doubtless pretty full" When he awoke
yesterday morning he was occupying
room in the Scroges' Building, and his
money was gone. The proprietor of the
house says he appeared there and paid four
bits for bed, late ut night He probably
was taken away from the saloon at Second
and | streets by some one, who in course
of time robbed him OF most of his money,
and then showed him where he could get
| room.